Sebea. | GENTIANE (Hill and Prain). 1083 
broadly ovate or cordate, subacute or acute, coriaceous, about 
7-8 lin. long, 5-9 lin. broad; inflorescence regularly branched, 
forming a loose corymbose panicle, 4—6 in. long, 24—4 in. in diam. ; 
branches firm and about 1 in. long ; pedicels about 1 lin. long or 
almost absent ; calyx-segments elliptic, acuminate, 34-5 lin. long, 
with wing about } lin. wide, widest about the middle ; corolla-tube 
4—5 lin. long ; lobes 44-6 lin. long, 14-2 lin. broad, elliptic, sub- 
acute ; filaments }~—} lin, long; anthers 23-3} lin. long, with small 
apical glands ; style 4 lin. long, with swelling ; stigma clavate. 
Katawari Reaion: Transvaal; Spitz Kop, Wilms, 970. 
EasTeRN Recron: Natal; Inanda, Wood, 866! hills at Sevenfontein, 
3000-4000 ft., Wyle in Herb. Wood, 5214! 
50. 8. erecta (A. W. Hill in Kew Bulletin, 1908, 328) ; perennial 
or biennial ; stems erect, unbranched, about 18 in. high, springing 
apparently from an underground creeping branched stem ; leaves 
numerous, 4—5 lin. long, 3-44 lin. broad, broadly ovate or cordate, 
subacute or apiculate, somewhat coriaceous ; inflorescences terminal, 
few-flowered ; branches 6—9 lin. long ; pedicels 1-2 lin. long ; calyx- 
segments 5 lin. long, 2 lin. broad, ovate-oblong, apiculate, with keel- 
wing | lin. wide, widest about the middle ; corolla-tube 4 lin. long ; 
lobes 53-6 lin. long, 24 lin. broad, obovate-oblong, obtuse ; filaments 
1 lin, long ; anthers 1? lin. long, with small apical glands ; style 
5 lin. long, with swelling near the base ; stigma capitate. 
Kaxanari Rearon : Transvaal; Liliefontein in Carolina district, Nicholson in 
Transvaal Herbarium, 4807 | 
51. 8. longicaulis (Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. 219) ; 
perennial or biennial, erect, simple below, simple or branched above, 
2 ft. or more high ; leaves ovate or orbicular-ovate, becoming elliptic- 
ovate to narrowly ovate-lanceolate above, 4—8 lin. long, 3—7 lin. broad, 
slightly coriaceous, subacute or acute ; cymes terminal, few-flowered, 
compact ; branches 4—9 lin. long; pedicels 3-6 lin. long; calyx- 
segments membranous, 4-5 lin. long, ovate-oblong, acute or acuminate 
or apiculate, with a slight keel wing; corolla-tube 3-4 lin. long; 
lobes 5-6 lin. long, 2-3 lin. broad, ovate-unguiculate, obtuse ; 
filaments 1-1} lin. long ; anthers 1} lin. Jong, with three very small 
glands; style 44 lin. long, with swelling near the base; stigma 
shortly clavate. Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 94; Schinz in Mitteil. 
Geogr. Ges. Liibeck, xvii. (1903) 42; A. W. Hill in Kew Bulletin, 
1908, 329. S. Woodii, Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 94; Schinz in 
Mitteil. Geogr. Ges. Liibeck, xvii. (1903) 42. S. crassulefolia, var. 
lanceolata, Schinz in Vierteljahrsschr. Naturf. Gesellsch. Ziirich, 
xxxvii. (1891) 323. S. macrosepala, Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 91 ; 
Schinz in Mitteil. Geogr. Ges. Liibeck, xvii, (1903) 48. 
Coast Rearoy : King Williamstown Div. ; Perie Bush, Scott-Elliot ! 
Eastern Recton: Griqualand East ; Mount Malowe, 5500 ft., Tyson, 3096! 
Natal ; ina swamp near Karkloof, 8000-4000 ft., Wood, 4447! Byrne, 3000 ft., 
